Words similar to mistake

Example sentences for: mistake

How can you use “mistake” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Today's armed forces won't make the same mistake.
In other words, they're willing to admit to a mistake in a non-combat zone, when lots of supervisors are involved, with lots of lead time, and involving simple technology but can't contemplate a mistake when none of these favorable conditions obtain.
It was the primal scene of maternal betrayal, the older woman eliciting the confession all too easily from the younger one and then using it to make her the laughingstock of the nation: Walters asks Lewinsky to imagine hypothetical children; Lewinsky tells them that "Mommy made a big mistake"; Walters concludes with a stunning outburst of moral hypocrisy, "And that is the understatement of the year."
The mistake, the Times tells us, was discovered yesterday.
Given the opportunity to ask Bradley a direct question, Gore asked whether his opponent thought he made a mistake on three big votes in the Senate--in favor of the Reagan budget cuts, against the use of force resolution the Gulf War, and against welfare reform.